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How do bull’s eye squalls occur?

This weather phenomenon occurs when, due to ascending winds above a typically invisible storm or vortex, there is a significant acceleration (for at least 1 minute). Hence the term "squall," ...
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The total pressure / total mass of earth's atmosphere on geological time scales

There are few studies of paleobarometry, but to my knowledge at least three different proxies have been used to infer past atmospheric pressures, and they pretty much agree: Fossil raindrop imprints. ...
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Pileus / velum & altocumulus / altostratus - classification problems

I’m just now learning about velum clouds, but have been familiar with pileus clouds for a while. It seems to me that the main difference is size if I’m understanding correctly. That doesn’t really ...
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